1942 Authentic Vintage KARL BLOSSFELDT Original Photo Gravure | ||
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Fine Photo Galleries: "Since 1989 - The Name You Can Trust For Fine Vintage Photogravures, Photographs & Antique Prints." - Serving the Design & Decor trades for over 25 years. See our vintage and original prints featured in Coastal Living, Dwell Magazine and other fine quality publications. This Vintage Print Comes Professionally Corner Mounted On Acid Free Conservation Mat Board and Ready To Place In A Standard Size Frame. Print Specifications: Photographer: Professor Karl Blossfeldt (German, 1865 - 1932) - Internationally renown and historically significant photographer, sculptor, teacher and artist who lived and worked in Berlin, Germany. Achieved international fame in the 1920's for his iconic close up photographs of plant types. Title: "Eranthis Hiemalis" - (Winter Aconite) Subject: Botanical study - enlarged plant abstract. This print comes from the renown 1942 printing which was one of only three high quality photogravure portfolios ever published of Blossfeldt's ground breaking photographic work. There were several other releases of his work from the 1930's to the 1950's and even present day reprints but, none that have approached the quality of the "trilogy" 1928/29, 1932 and 1942 single sided prints. Date Of Negative: circa 1920's - 1930's Type Of Print: Vintage Photogravure/Héliogravure (Etched plate made from the original image) Date Of Print: 1942 Paper: Medium weight, matte finish Print Origin: Germany Print/Plate Maker: Meisenbach Riffarth & Co. A.G., Berlin-Schoneberg, Germany Approximate Image Size Inches: 11 x 8.5 inches Approximate Image Size Metric: 28 x 21.75 centimeters Print Border: Yes - small 3/8 inch surrounding border, professionally trimmed. Condition Grade: Fine ++ (Some foxing due to age) Verso: Blank Vintage Print Archive#: 092RWN4-LO Certificate Of Authenticity (COA): Yes - individual hand signed COA from Fine Photo Galleries. Shipping: USPS with MUSEUM QUALITY ARCHIVAL PACKING Guarantee: Always 100% Complete Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed! This is an original AUTHENTIC (NOT a modern reprint), vintage 1942 photogravure (héliogravure) print by the renown photographer, teacher and artist Professor Karl Blossfeldt. Catapulted to international fame some 80 years ago by his amazing isolated close up photographs of strange botanical forms, Blossfeldt was an early pioneer in the transformation of photography from a medium of documentation to that of an art form. He devoted his entire 30 year career to the close up photographing of plant sections creating engaging images which crossed into the abstract art world. Blossfeldt designed and made his own camera which allowed him to magnify his plant specimens up to 30 times their actual size. Today he is considered an important and influential figure in photographic history and his work is held in numerous collections and museums throughout the world. IMPORTANT NOTE: These are amongst the most difficult prints we have made scans of - a testament to the quality gravure printing of these images as they possess the best qualities for which gravure is known - subtle shading and a wide range of tone. This subtle shading (particularly the background) in many cases cannot be accurately picked up by the scanner. There is a light shaded background behind the botanical subject in many of these plates which the scanner cannot pick up - it therefor appears as a white background in these web scans when in fact there is a soft gray color field behind the botanical subject as a backdrop. This photogravure is guaranteed to be authentic and comes with a hand signed CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY (COA) with unique individual registered serial number from the Finephoto Vintage Archive & Database. Under magnification this plate shows a tight "honeycomb" cell structure, uniform pressing of ink and a wide range of tone - all indicative of a quality sheet fed gravure print. The watermark word "Finephoto" does not appear on the actual print. |
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